Abstract [en]

In this paper, we examine what translation strategies two different translators use when translating cultural references, i.e. words related to the culture of a country. The studied texts are two Crime Novels written by Henning Mankell, "Faceless Killers" is translated by Philippe Bouquet in 1994 and "The Troubled Man" is translated by Anna Gibson in 2010.

We used Brynja Svane’s analytical model of translation strategies. Strategies that are represented in the studied texts are direct reproduction, direct translation, paraphrasing, omission, addition and translation with an approved equivalent. We discussed various examples to compare the choice of strategies and to determine whether the texts are oriented towards the source language or the target language concerning the translation of cultural references.

The results of the study show that there are some differences in the choice of strategies between the two translators. The translation from 1994 is slightly more faithful to the original text than the translation from 2010. Both translations are still very oriented towards the language source.